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Gentoo: GLSA-200502-27 Normal: gFTP Directory Traversal Attack

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Calendar Grey February 19, 2005
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gFTP in Gentoo has a security flaw related to directory traversal, which permits malicious users to modify files using specially designed filenames.
gFTP is vulnerable to directory traversal attacks, possibly leading to the creation or overwriting of arbitrary files.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200502-27 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: gFTP: Directory traversal vulnerability Date: February 19, 2005 Bugs: #81994 ID: 200502-27

Synopsis ======= gFTP is vulnerable to directory traversal attacks, possibly leading to the creation or overwriting of arbitrary files.
Background ========= gFTP is a GNOME based, multi-threaded file transfer client.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-ftp/gftp < 2.0.18-r1 >= 2.0.18-r1
========== gFTP lacks input validation of filenames received by remote servers.
Impact ===== An attacker could entice a user to connect to a malicious FTP server and conduc...

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